john mccain. they are great friends. i'm wondering if mccain isn't sabotaging susan rice, making it impossible to nominate her and they settle for his friend john kerry? >> what else doesn't make sense is he said i knew from friday it was a terrorist attack and he said he did sign off on the revised edited final version that said it wasn't. so in other words, he deliberately per perpetuated a ? >> the real question, and doug raised it with tom, is how he was played. this investigation, the timing of his leaving, but the fact that they knew, you know what? let me just say this, neither i nor the american people, we may have been born most of us at night but we were not born last night. and at some point it started smelling. i would venture to take say it came out of the national security council. tom, the political operative, i think they put pressure on petraeus. they need to get to the bottom of it. again, the stakes are high and people should stop playing politics. its unseemly watching people play politics with this.